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The alleged poet Miiler will probably
write another play if Che paragraphers
don’t quit Joaquin him.
When Czar gives a dinner to his
favorite cqurt dwarf his guards are extra
Vigilant lest he should dynamite.
It must not be thought from the interest
Hon. S. B.Cox took in the O Donnell case
that his defeat in the Speakership contest
got bis Irish up..
There is one thing that can be said
about the Tom Ochiltree party consist
ing of but one member, there Js great
unanimity In all its proceedings.
Ono of tbe first establishments to be set
on foot in Shi field, Ala., is the gas vgjrks.
As tbe new city is being founded by At
lanta men. this tact will not create uiy
astonishment.
Senator Bayard has a great fondness for
flowers, and the fact has been telegraphed
ali over the land that he walked about the
capitol the other day exhibiting an ex
quisite lily that weighed about 130 pounds.
Senator Laphatn, of New York, proposes
to do away with the name of Utah, even
If polygamy cannot be suppressed. He
proposes to call it Altamont. It is not
likely Congress will take much stock in
hie proposition.
Tennyson has just written a poem on
“Spring.” He must have been rather
Baron in ideas to undertake writing on
that subject in the winter, but probably
wished to forestall the college boys by
getting in his racket ahead cd them.
The National Democratic Executive
Committee is called to meet in Washing- |
ton on February 22, 1884, to select the f
time and place for holding the Presidential |
Convention. One would naturally think i
the birthday of the Father of his ‘
country a lucky time for tlie committee’s ■'
meeting.
The Chicago people were so anxious to
get ril of the female base ball club that
they subscribed $ >OO to send the members
to their homes in the East. As s!l tic
best looking ones were sent eff first, it is
surmised the charitable movement was
conducted by the suspicious wives ot that
inconstant city.
The wires made our Atlanta correspon
dent say directly contrary to what he in
tended to say respecting one point in his
report of the proceedings of the colored
Educational Convention in Atlanta. On
the point in question he intended to say
that the delegates from Savannah and :
vicinity did not participate in the wrangles '
of the con ven i km .
Senator Anthony’s quarter century of
continuous service in the United States
Senate has caused some wicked writer to
resurrect Mr. J t fferaoq’s remark about
office holders—that “few dig ai;d none re
l ven< 'i’i<ble Senator bus pr»r en (
vo oe determined to uphold tb.at
Jeffersonian doctrine in more than one
spell of serious illness.
President Arthur cannot look with any
great pleasure on the selection of Chicago
as the place for the meeting of the Repub
lican Convention. It seems to indicate
that Loganward “the star of empire takes
its way.” Yet Chicago gave him the
Vice Presidency and furnished a Guiteau
to remove the obstruction between him
and the Executive chair.
The Indianapolis Times says the worst
feature of Gen. Fitz John Porter’s case is
the ardent championship it receives from
the Southern members of Congress. The
fact that the Republicans are not willing
to give Gen. Porter justice because he is
a Democrat, is the most prominent and
disgraceful feature of the case in the eyes
of the country, but judgment will not be
perverted any more by partisan side is
sues.
One of our esteemed contemporaries
says that Hon. J. C. S. Blackburn having
been appointed Chairman of the Commit
tee on Rules, will probably have to be
contented with that. Heretofore the
Speaker has been the Chairman ot the
Committee on Rules. It is not easy to
see how Blackburn could be made Chair
man without a change in the rules, and as
far as we know there has been no change
in the rules of the House.
How protection aids the laboring men
may be illustrated by reference to tne
fact that in the last twenty-four years
their wages have increased only 10 per
cent,, while the necessaries of life, under
the war tariff, have advanced 33 per cent.
But still the organs of the enormous
monopolists—that have been fostered at
tbe expense of the people—have the cheek
to cry out that tariff reform is against
the interests of the laboring men.
Probably the most valuable minnows
ever brought tb this country arrived from
Japan the other day. They are the King
hai-o, and are seventy-five in number, the
largest being about five inches long. They
have a broad three pointed silky tail that
waves like a banner as the fish swims
about. There are three varieties, one
with ordinary eyes, one with protruding
eyes like a bullfrog, and one with eyes
still more prominent. As these fish are
valued at SIOO each, one can be justly
pronounced “no sardine.”
Among the famous literary men besides
Tennyson who have been raised to the
Peerage in England were Bacon, Bulwer,
Macauley and Disraeli. Lord Byron, the
greatest and wickedest of the English
poets, inherited his title and estates from
his great uncle, William, Lord Byron, of
Rochdale and Newstead Abbey. Byron’s
habits were so dissipated that on becom
ing of age he found great trouble in get
ting introduced into the House of Lords.
His Parliamentary career was brief.
He delivered only two speeches, one of
which, in favor of milder punishment tor
the weavers who had broken up the
newly invented machine looms, was writ
ten out and delivered in a sort of school
boy style, but attracted considerable at
tention. He spent nearly all his life in
writing poetry and indulging his love for
adventures in the East.and cared little for
politics. Bacon, Bulwer, Macauley and
Disraeli were distinguished for states
manship as well as their literary achieve
ments. Tennyson has taken no interest
in statecraft, and, being now 74 years of
age, is not likely to take any prominent
part in the proceedings ot the House of
Lords.
Political Prosecutions.
The sudden collapse of the political
prosecutions in South Carolina appears to
justify the conclusion that they had very
little foundation. JVitbin the last three
or four years there have been similar
prosecutions in quite a number of the
Southern States, and in all of them the
result was very much like that in South
Carolina. It cannot be said that the gov
ernment counsel were weak and over
matched. The government is able to
employ the very best counsel the country
affords, and it is fair to suppose that it
secured first-class talent, It certainly
paid for that kind of talent, and if it
didn’t get what it paid for it was its
own fault. The tumble was not with
the prosecuting attorneys. The cases
were weak, and lawyers who enjoy a
national reputation could not have
i handled them more successfully than
thyse who had them in charge The out
: come of all these political prosecutions in
i tbe South ought to teach the government
i that it is wasting time and money to
I gratify the malice of disappointed poli
-ticians. The men whosetin motion these
prosecutions and undertake to furnish the
testimony to sustain them, are.net con
trolled by a desire to see the lawn vindi
cated. They have a purpose in view. It
is .-to acquire, by the aid of the courts,
what they failed to get at
the ballot-box. Defeated in a
fair contest of the ballot, >t4»ey
resort to the Federal machinery to intimi
date their opponents. If this were not so
they surely would get a conviction or.se
in a Availe of those they charge with
crimes against suffrage. It is probable
that nothing more will be heard of the
South Carolina prosecutions. In good
time the remaining cases will tie dis
missed. lit would be interesting to know
how much money has been wasted in pros
ecuting alleged election offenses in the
South. It must be very large.
The Way to Get Itiil of Tramps.
The murder of Mrs. Maybee and her
daughter, and tbe inhuman treatment of
Mr. Maybee, a blind paralytic, in a little
village of Long Island, will probably re
main a mystery forever. Several persons
have been arrested .and discharged, an
examination having proved them in
nocent. The general impression is
that this horrible crime, like
others, was perpetrated by a
tramp, and there is a general outcry
against these dangerous human wrecks,
which are drifting to and fro upon
the current of life. Harper's Weekly
proposes that the young men in the
towns and villages of the North organize
themselves into mounted companies and
take turns in patrolling the country. This
is a Southern way of doing things. When
ever a community has reason to suspect
the presence of criminals, a “patrol” is or
ganized, and they scour the country in
their neighborho id, and arrest, and some
times punish, murderers, thieves and rob
bers. Harper's Weekly, however, calls
our “patrols” Ku-Kluxes whenever they
whip a thief, or shoot a dangerous out
law. A good Ku-Klux organization
in some of the Northern States, with a
chain-gang attachment, one to punish
the murderers and the other the lesser
criminals, would have the effect of rid
ding that country of the tramp nuisance.
The demand for recruits in the Cuyler
gwamp canal chain-gang relieved this
county cf the presence of the white tramp,
but his colormj brother sometimes gets a
position in the gang.
Suffrage in Rhode Island.
The bill of Senator Butler, of South
Carolina, to amend the fifteenth amend
ment to the Constitution of tbe United
States so as to make it read, “The right
to vote shall not be denied on account ot
race, nativity, creed, color, property, or
previous condition of servitude,” has a
kind of retributive justice about it. While
it does not necessitate a change in the
suffrage laws of any gopthern State, it
will cause a “rattling among the dry
bones” in one of the Northern States,
which has been raising the loudest out
cries because the Southern people would
not suffer all their local governmental in
terests to be retained in the hands of the
carpet-baggers and scalawags who got jn
power the instrumentality and
fraud of the Ignorant negro vote.
At the time the fifteenth amendment
was adopted Rhode Island required of all
voters either an educational or property
qualification. The amendment, when
first proposed, was almost identical with
that of Senator Butler, and would have
bee*, adopted in that shape but for
the earnest protests of a Senator from
that State, who was no less distin
guished a man than the now venerable
Senator Anthony. Against tbe voice of
the entire Republican party he plead so
eloquently, threatening at the same time
that the necessary majority of States
would not ratify the amendment as it
stood, that the objectionable words
“nativity,” “creed” and “property”
were stricken out. The party, thus
intimidated, submitted to his dictation
rather than jeopardize the adoption of the
amendment, and the consequent rights of
the colored men, on whose vote the hopes
of the future of the Republican party
seemed to depend.
Rhode Island still clings to her little
statute, and thereby excludes a good num
ber of Democratic voters. It is charged
that Rhode Island has not a Republican
form of government, and that it is the
duty of the United States to cause a re
publican form of government to be estab
lished there and see that the constitu
tional guarantees are carried out. Senator
Butler’s amendment then really is aimed
at Rhode Islan I, and it will be refreshing
to see the truly loyal people of that State
wince at the wiping out ot one of their
boasted peculiarities. Mr. Anthony,
however, is said to yield to the amend
ment as one who bows to fate, and will
join hands with the Senator from South
Carolina in securing its passage.
It will be well along towards next sum
mer before the question will come up for
final action, but the Republicans will pro
bably unite with the Democrats and pass
the amendment unanimously. It may be,
however, that it will meet with consider
able opposition, and in that event Senator
Butler and his coadjutors will be pre
pared to make the discussion interesting
to any Republicans who may arraign
themselves against it.
Senator Butler’s idea that “what is
sauce for the goose is sauce for the gan
der,” even if it is as small and tough a
bird as Rhode Island, is a good one, and
it will be gratifying to see it put into
practical operation.
The Justices of the Court of Appeals,
in New York, are going to adopt the En
glish custom of wearing silk gowns on
the bench, and it is supposed that their
dignity will then be overwhelming. The
only danger is that the impudent and ir
reverent newspaper reporters may take a
humorous view of the fashion, for the
physiognomical peculiarities of some
members of tbe honorable body will
doubtless suggest the most ludicrous
comparisons. It has already been sug
gested that the members of the bar as
sociation be required to decorate them
selves with snowy powdered wigs, and
the effect of such an ornament surmount
ing the ponderous proboscis of the dis
tinguished Evarts will add wonderfully
to his dignity, even if it should upset tbe
dignity of the profane spectator.
Whether this style of judicial costume
will cause an agitation of the question of
petticoat government remains to be seen.
The name Bashi Bazouks sounds savage
enough, but the Egyptian troops of that
tribe were the first ones to drop their guns
and run when the rebels began to pop
their caps at them.
THE SUNDAY MORNING NEWS: SAVANNAH, DECEMBER 16, 1883.
Self Appointed Nobility.
The New York World, of Sunday last,
devotes a page to the crests and coats of
arms assumed by a few of the would-be
aristocrats of that citv, who make them
selves ridiculous in the eyes of the world
by attempting to copy the time-honored
customs of the European nobility. Their
only claims to the distinction with w hich
they endeavor to clothe their families lies
in the tact that their parents or grand
parents were sc favored by fortune as to
be enabled to amass a considerable
amount of filthy lucre, by means more or
less honorable and honest. Some of these
snobs probably descended from collateral
and. perhaps, disowned branches of noble
families. Others can truly trace their
I pedigree back but a few generations,
where the iaint clues are lost among re
spectable shop keepers and honest tenant
farmers; and there are others whose his
tory, if rightly w ritten, would recall the
memory of the pseudo Hudibrast : c allu
sion to one whose ‘*/ r ncient but ignoble
blood has crept through scoundrels ever
since the flood.”
Titles of nobility aid assumptions of
the manners of the European aristocracy
are so contrary to the genius ot American
institutions that the attempt to indulge in
them in this country does not even pro
voke serious opposition, and the only re
proof is the casual smile of mingled con
tempt and amusement The crests and
coats ot arms of the sjveil New Yorkers
are unknown to the English College of
Heraldry, which is the cnly recognized
authority on that subject, although there
has been several spurious genealogical
works printed in America in which family
histories of those who were vain and fool
■ ish enough to pay for them were inserted
at liberal advertising rates.
The first coat of arms illusJrsXed in tbe
World is that of the Astor family, which
looks like a good fat poodle shaved up to
hi« head and mounted on a shield. Above
this is a di speptic-looking lion bogged up
to. his flanks in seven links of sausage. A
more appropriate emblem v.ould have
been an avaricious looking tramp trading
off a g-penny string of beads to tbe Indians
for a beat load of coon skins. Under the
shield is a scroll bearing the motto,
"Semper fideles," which probably alludes
to the regularity with which the Astors
rake in their rents.
The crest of Mr. Van Rensselear Cruger
is the body of a cranky greyhound mounted
on six links of sausage, and underneath
is the word “Fiuee,” which is probably
a corruption of “Jldo,” the name of the
dog. The cognizance ot the family would
suggest the idea, probably an unjust one,
that the fortune of this noble race origi
nated in the manufacture of sausages
from tbe flesh ot unfortunate canines.
The arms of ex-Secretary of State Ham
ilton Fish has three fleur-de-lis, very much
resembling the trey of clubs, on an es
cutotgon over which is placed the image
of a piscatorial horny-head drawn up in
such a manner as to indicate a very se
vere attack of the stomach ache. The
motto “Deus Dabit,” perhaps, refers to
the manner in which he didn’t receive his
distinguished position. A more appro
priate motto would be “Raptos Honoree.”
However, this gentleman is one of the
true scions of codfish aristocracy.
Ex-Mayor Grace’s coat-of-arms is so
strikingly suggestive ofthe “yerker” in a
euchre deck that the pen cannot be fur
ther trusted, lest it betray the myriads of
thoughts that naturally spring up in the
writer’s mind. ‘This would not do, for the
distinguished quasi nobleman has an idea
that he is a descendant of the Norman
barons and ancient Irish kings.
The heraldic armor of Simeon Henry
Remsen is a shield on which are appa
rently a bundle of oats, three geese and a
pair of human arms and hands. Under
neath is the motto: “Otium ex Lahore,”
which may refer to the oats on which the
geese are fed and the labor ot picking
them.
There are many other conceits which
are too tedious to mention. Some of them
contain devices which belong properly
Ol ;,'v to certain royal families, while there
is not < which is authorized by the laws
of heraldry, Tflt'Se snobs, while they are
merely laughed at here for their cheeky
vanity, are considered by the real nobility
of Europe as too contemptible for a
passing notice. It is gratifying,however, to
note that the science of bastard heraldry
is not being developed to any great extent
in America, and not at all except iu New
York and Boston.
Logan’s Land Bill.
The National Republican Convention
having been called to m et in the chief
city of Logan’s State that gentleman
ought to be happy if, within the next
three or four months, he succeeds in get
ting a favorable report on his bill, which
provides that—
Every person entering the service of his
country during the late war, either in the
army or navy, and honorably discharged
therefrom, for any period of service less
than one year shall be entitled to 80 acres
of public land, either for himself or heirs;
for service between one and two years.
120 acres, and over two years’ service, 160
acres.
He ought to stand a pretty good chance,
with all of these things in his favor, of
getting a complimentary vote from the
convention. Logan has always cultivated
the soldier element, but the soldier ele
ment hasn’t always seconded Logan’s as
pirations as heartily as he could wish.
When Grant was President he got through
a pension bill that would have taken
about $500,000,000 out of the Treasury. He
succeeded in getting it through just a min
ute or two before the time for the Congress
to expire. Grant was in his room at the
capitol signing bills, and Logan was
so anxious to get his bill signed that
he would not trust it to a messenger.
He ran with it himself to the President
and experienced the greatest disappoint
ment of his life when the President re
fused to sign it. It is estimated that this
land bill of Logan’s, if it should become a
law, would absorb over 206,000,000 acres.
It is doubtful if tbe government has that
much good land. The barren lands of
Alaska might be utilized, but a 160 acre
farm wouldn’t be wortn very much there
—not enough to feel grateful for. The
majority of the Union soldiers have been
pretty well paid, and it would probably
be as well for Logan to rest on what he
has done for them.
Philadelphia is much interested in a
crank who is undergoing a remarkable
system of training preparatory to a slug
ging match with the “eminent” Sullivan.
He boasts the thrilling title of “The White
Star of Texas,” and proposes to knock out
the Boston champion for a purse of $lO,-
000. Every day he walks around Frank
lin square with a heavy dumbbell at
tached to each ankle. He takes ice-water
baths, and has his legs and body beaten
blue with billiard cues. Then he is
hitched to a swill cart and trotted three
miles. His diet is bananas, mustard, gin,
vinegar, molasses, soda-water and pepper
sauce. His name is Henry Snagg, but
the cognomen may be assumed as typical
of what his adversary may expect to run
against. If he will now successfully go
I through a three months’ pounding with a
pile-driver, he may stand some chance of
coming out victor in the contest.
The Woman’s National Christian Tem
perance Union has set apart the 23d of
December as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer to God for the advancement of the
cause throughout the country. Tbe pro
gress of temperance has been most re
markable in the past few years, and its
advocates have great cause for thanks
giving. In every city and town in the
land the Union requests the people to hold
mass meetings on the day named and to
make a “thank offering” to help the or
ganization in its work.
The Hip Ye Tong.
“For ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain, the heathen Ch’nee is pecu
liar.” The Hip Ye Tong is a Chinese
secret court that has been in existence
some ten or twelve years in Stra Francisco,
and one has recently been discovered in
New York city. It is composed of Chinese
rebels, or enemies to the present Chinese
dynasty. All disputes of the Chinamen
among themselves are brought before this
tribunal, and its decrees are always
obeyed, for the Chinese know that a
failure to do so will submit them to the
terrors of the “high binders,"” er hatchet
men, who are the executive officers of tbe
tribunal. It is said that the penalty for
disobedience is always death. The ruf
fians who inflict the penalty -are-rarely
discovered and puaished by the
I American courts, for the
would not dare to testify
against them. The headquarters of the
Hip Ye Tong is in the Jose house, and it
numliers in San Franciseo about 1,500
.-members. The President is the Judge,
.and all the members are sworn to execute
his orders. If a Chinaman has a bad debt
be goes befoie the tribunal and offers it a
certain percentage, and the debtor on
notification always pays the claim or dies.
The members of the Hip Ye Tong are all
criminals, and commit murders and bur
glaries and steal women with impunity
among their countrymen. Tbe women
aresold for the benefit of the society, and
complaints are seldom if ever made.
Whatever the Chinaman does or wherever
he gees, he is required to pay the Hip Ye
Tong-for the privilege.
The Imperial authorities have sup
pressed this secret society in China, but
it has obtained a foothold in America, and
if it is anything like the villainous and
savage body it is represented to be, it
will be difficult to extirpate. American
detectives are utterly powerless against
these shrewd Orientals on account of its
secret character ( protected by signs and
a complete code of signals) and the diffi
culty of learning the Chinese language.
Its power and influence may be largely
exaggerated, but to break up its practices
will require the importation from China
of a large number of the best Imperial
secret agents.
The Board of Education of Brooklyn
has resolved by a vote of 21 to 14 that the
public schools be directed to receive all
colored children that may apply for ad
mission on the same terms as white chil
dren, Providence and Boston are proba
bly the only large cities where mixed
schools are in operation, but the colored
population ot those cities is so small that
little trouble results from the regulations.
In Brooklyn there are nearly a thousand
colored children of school age, and the
race feeling is so strongly marked that
quite a breeze is likely to spring up from
this departure from old precedents, especi
ally as the resolution was adopted by a
minority of the full board, several mem
bers being absent, not knowing so im
portant a question was to be sprung.
Since Chicago has been so fortunate as
to again draw the prize of the Republican
National Convention, the disinterested
and self-sacrificing patriotism of its hotel
men in ISBO is being commented upon.
During the last convention held in that
city some ot the landlords succeeded in
begging tbe use of several public build
ings in which to house their political
guests, and charged the delegations as
high as $2 50 each per day for the same.
A Cincinnati paper, in a fit of rage and
en<y, rakes up tfcis old score, and says
that there may be men in that city mean
enough for such gouges, but that they are
not in the hotel business. Such an exhi
bition of childlike faith is somewhat re
markable, and it is a pity it cannot be put
to the test.
Governor Jarvis, of North Carolina, has
been exercising tbe prerogative of Execu
tive clemency in three murder cases,
which can he referred to the bloody-shirt
organs as good material on which to
found another tirade against the South.
Two of them are negroes and one white,
their sentences have been commuted
from death to imprisonment in the peni
tentiary for life. It is very wicked in the
Governor to show mercy to the poor
freedmen and thus deprive the ultra Re
puboC“ a Press of a chance to raise an
other howl about tu? unjust discrimina
tion against citizens on account ot race,
etc.
There are many persons and papers
that, if they have intelligence enough to
distinguish between free trade and tariff
reform, are very studious in their efforts
to conceal it, and consequently their in
fluence with sensible people is rather no
ticeable from its reflex action than by its
direct results. What is wanted in this
age of enlightenment is the irresistible
logic of facts.
CU KKtGN 1 COMMENT.
The 47,920 True Henchmen.
CMca-go Mews (Dem.).
Mr. Hatton’s part of the “machine” to dic
tate Mr. Arthur’s nomination is compose I of
45,720 men. He has the appointment of jnst
this number of Postmasters in the country,
and Mr. Arthur some 2,200.
A Question to the Point.
Boston Pont (Dem.).
Is this the United States of America or
merely Pennsylvania? If—as we suppose—it
is the former," why should the entire nation
be plundered by a villainously unfair tariff,
simply to further enrich the bloated monopo
lists of Simon Cameron’s bailiwick?
A Plea, lor Louisville.
Nashville W rid (Dem.).
Where shall the National DemccraticUon
vention be held? asks the Review and Journal.
Since the President is to be a revenue reform
er. why look further than Louisville? She has
the room, she has the hotels, she has the
roads, she has the boats, and the gin-new
wine article, too!
Training for the Campaign.
Ch icago PrMB f Ind.).
It i> peculiarly noticeable that the iron
manufacturers are now shutting down their
shops or cutting down the wages of their em
ployes. This will afford the protection party
a fine opportunity to exhibit a profound in
terest in the workingman just before the im
portant elections next fall by running their
manufactories to their full capacity and pay
ing higher wages until after the election, and
the workingmen induced to vote the Republi
can ticket.
ITEMS OF I N'T EKES T.
The interest on the English national debt
amounts to thrice the estimated tn ome of all
the members of the House of Peers.
Seneca Lake remains open when all the
other Central New York lakes arc frozen.
Wild ducks .re to be found upon it in great
abundance throughout the winter.
In a rifle shooting match between an Alba
ny and a Schenectady man for the champion
ship of those cities, the material prize will be
a mince pie weighing about thirty pounds.
The recent terrible eruptions in Java have
had the effect of completely destroying the
Seenda mosquito, an insect which the natives
imagined to be the size of chickens and as
vicious as a wolf.
In Norway the trial of the Ministers of State
is progressing. It seems now as if the ma
jority of the Judges would decide not only
that the ministers have forfeited their office,
but that they are incompetent to fill any office
again.
A Dundee dairyman was recently con
victed of selling milk which had stood in the
room in which a child was ill with scarlet
fever. The mlk absorbed the poison, and
seventeen persons were infected with the dis
ease, four of whom died.
A writer to the London Jforning Post says
that, except in the leading street’, it is unsafe
to walk in Paris at night unarmed, or with
out taking very good care to keep suspicious
people at a distance. He adds that the streets
are now badly kept and badly lighted.
The Health Commissioner of Brooklyn has
forbidden tbe use of the antiseptics called rex
magnus and Venetian re 1. The former is
composed largely id boracicac'd. Numerous
instances are given by the Brooklyn papers of
serious and deadly effects from its use.
At Bacup, in England, recently, a girl, aged
7, died from inflammation of the brain,
brought on by overwork at school. The medi -
cal officer, in reporting the care, strongly con -
demned the practice of making young child
ren do home lessons at night. He said it
worried them and made them restlees in their
sleep.
A correspondent of the London Standard
asserts that a recruit for the British army was
rejected at St. George’s Barracks as being
unlit for service, because he had "more than
t- four decayed back teeth.” Moreover, he as
serts that more than three dozen strong young
men were returned “unfit” for tbe same
reason.
Work is to be begun this week on tbe great
canal that is to irrigate the San Luis Valley,
in Southern Colorado. Tne canal is to be
seven miles long, and at the bottom sixiy feet
wide, and there are to be many lateral vanale
from it—all to irrigate 3 O.OuO acres of land
now almost worthless. Several Colonies are
to be organized to occupy this land.
The French Gover iment, with a view to
the revival of the somewhat languishing in
dustry of '«■ al fishing on tbe Algerian coast,
has published a decree cont >inii>g certain
nroLibition- and regu ations on the * bjeet.
It forbids in future the use of maie
of iron or other metal, as b ing destructive of
tue reefs and preventing their reproduction.
ASOCIKTY which is likely to find much
scope for action is the Societe de St. Luc,
which has been constituted in Paris. It con
sists of art sts, and its object is io prevent the
sale of worthless piciures bearing "forged sig
natured of famous painters. It is proposed io
register works and affix a seal to them bv
which their authenticity will be guaranteed.
Despite the inventions es recent years the
largest telescope in the world is still Lord
Kosse’s, at, Parsontown. Ireland, although it
was cotnUs'iicted some forty years ago. It is
also the most powerful in respect to its light
grasping capacity, a very Im orcaut matter in
the study oi lai nt objects, &uch as nebula?. Its
mirror is six feet in uiauieter, and the length
of its tube ia,fifty-three feet.
The recent tribu e sent by the King of An
nam to the Emperor of China consisted of: 1
Iwo elephants' tusks. 2. two rhinoceros’
horns. 3. Forty-five catties of betel nuts.
.4. Forty-five cutties “grains of paradise.” 5.
600 ounces of sandal wood. 6. 300 ounces of
garroo wood. 7. joo pieces of native silk. 8.
100 pieces of white silk. 9. 100 pieces of raw
silk. 10. 100 pieces of native cloth.
“Nothing is more discouraging than the in
ability of the people to discriminate between
sound stocksand worthless ones,” saysafinan
cial writer. It may 4»e discouraging, but it is
not surprising. Supnpse a man does know a
worthless stock, how can he fail to know at
the same time that a .sound stock is worth
less—much less—than when he bought it? As
one is worthless and the either worth less, the
inability of the people to discriminate should
be excused.
A man iu Seymour, Coen., who was rich
enough to offer JSO for each spring of 2,700 but
tons, all with shanks and no two alike, to be
sent in before November 26, has been called
on to pay for about forty strings of buttons.
Hi- original offerslipulated that the collectors
should be young ladies not over 20 years old
but this condition is suspected to have been'
very generally disregarded. It is said that
long before the limit of time set he had ac
tually paid out f 1,5ij0 on approved claims.
Wood Granger was fined S3O for disturb
ing public worship in a little church near
Middleton, Ky., notwithstanding Robert An
drew’ Higgins’ testimony in his behalf, as fol
lows: “Wood Granger, in my ’pinion, wuz no
wuss in his behavior den some of de res’. I
tole you dar’s no behavior in dat church what
somever De all cuts up dar. I’ve done seen
’em rollin’ dese yer little round dice in de
pews while de preacher war a prayin’ fur de
salwation of der souls. What I means by be
havior is, dar wuz uo real good genteel be
havior.”
Mr. J. Lowes, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, the
day n of North of England repo ters, is about
to issue a work descriptive of a system of
stenography of which he is the author. Mr.
Lowes writes: ‘'With an average amount of
intelligence, you can master the rules and
principles in half an hour, and the details bv
the application of an hour a day for a week
To apply both principles and details to verba
tim reporting must depend upon individual
capacity and application.” The system has
been large y in use in the North of England
for the past thirty years.
There are about 54,000,000 people in this
country, and the number of stamps, stamped
envelopes and postal cards sold to the public
last year was was 1,861,6'9,093, or only 34J£ to
each person. That seems a small allowance,
but the babies must be counted out, and even
then we have only about one letter or postal
card in five days for the people of the writing
age. When it is considered what a vast num
ber of letters, circulars and postal cards are
sent by a comparatively small number of
easiness men, it will appear Hint a large pro
portion of tlw population still makes no use
of the postal facilities.
A Bostonian fell from a bridge. The tide
was running swiftly out, and he was swept
rapidly toward mid-ocean. He had gone bot
tomward twice before some stalwart oarsmen
succeeded in pulling him into their boat.
There were no signs of life, bin after an hour
or so of the customary manipulatio 6 he was
brought to consciousness. Without referring
in any manner to his narrow escape, lie pulleu
out some bank notes from an inside pocket.
With a look of despair he exclaimed: “Oh,
my God, my God, my mon y is spoiled.”
Not until one of his friends had demonstrated
to him beyond doubt that his bills would uot
shrink in value on account of soaking did the
terrified man recover calmness.
The newest swindler discovered is a girl.
She was in a telegraph office writing a mes
sage. She wore mourning clothes, which were
strikingly neat and cheap. “Will you please
tell me,” she said to a bystander, “how I can
condense this message to ten words? I don’t
wish to have to pav anything extra.” This
was what she had written on the blank: “1
am friendless here; I have only a dollar left.
Send some money.” The unimpressionable
narrator looked her squarely in the face, and
found it charming, but not to a delusive de
gree. The pallor was artificial, and the dolo
rous expression was mimicry. Every day for
a week she had written that same message,
without ever sending it over the wires, but
will! more or less success in exciting lucrative
sympathy.
The unwritten history of Lord Coleridge’s
recent tour in this country would probably be
far more interesting th n the daily chronicles
which were furnished by the press. The fol
lowing is told in confidence and with bated
breath by the inhabitants ot a flourishing city
in western New York: The Chief Justice
was entertained at dinner one evening by a
local magnate. A caterer well known in that
part of the State furnished the refreshments
an<i the china on which they were served,
which, by the way, was a new and beautiful
hand-painted set. During the course of
the dinner it is related that Lord
Coleridge said to his charming hostess: “You
will excuse the comment, but I really
must compliment you on the exqusite beauty
of your china.” My lady calmly appropriated
the compliment, and gracefully replied:
“Thank you, my Lord. It is used for the first
time iu your Lordship’s honor.” Then the
dinner moved on to a successful close. Judge
of hie Lordship’s surprise when, at a break
fast given next morning by a legal luminary,
he was confronted with the same beautiful
set of china. But bis surprise was augmented
when, on the following day, the banquet in
his honor, given in a rival" city ninety miles
away, was graced with the hand-painted
china used for the first time in his Lordship’s
honor.
BKIGHT BITS.
“Drop letters one cent,” is the popular
cry. But every drop letter is one sent now,
isn’t it?
“Hacked to death” is suggested as an in
scription for the tombstones of visitors who
die at Niagara.— Oil City Blizzard.
People pity the deaf and dumb, and yet
they never wake at night swearing at the tom
cats ou the back fence. — Philadelphia Chroni
cle.
Only one soldier was ki led in a ba'tie in
onr regular armv last year. There were
3,600 desertions. This perhaps accounts for
thesmall mortality.— Philadelphia Call.
A newly married Texas man shot hie bride
while she was mixing her first batch of bis
cuits. His plea in court will probably be self
defense.—Bismarck Tribune.
An Allegheny man with a six foot wife says
that the difference between him and a base
ball club is that he has a tall bosser and the
club has a ball tosser.— Pittsburgh Telegraph.
“Got tough job on hand to day,” said
Snooks to a friend on Canal street." “Sorry,
old fellow; what is it?” “Promised to carve
turkey nt our boarding house.”— New Orleans
Picayune.
Some men are born great; some achieve
greatness, and same write 12,870,547,821,006
words on a postal card and grasp fame right
by the back of the neck.—Bi«znarcifc Tribune,
after Lord Bacon.
“Papa, canSt tell me why a ship is like unto
a man who accepts a glass "of wine?” “Great
Cieear, child! Os course I can’t. Prithee un
fold to me thy deep-laid , lot.” “Because,
dear papa, it sails into port with a bow.”—
New J ork Morning Journal.
At a Paris banquet of physicians alayrn an
guest, when called upon, gave this toast:
••Gentlemen,” he said, “>ou have drunk the
health of many physicians, but there is one
toast you have forgotten. Permit me to re
pair the omission. 1 drink to the health of
your patients.”
A gentleman, apparently attempting the
feat of escorting a lamp post, was arrested by
an officer and taken to the station house.
Upon recovering his sobriety he explained
to the sergeant that he thought he was
leaning againt his wife, and that she was
leading him home. “Do you mean to say
ihat you couldn’t tell the difference between
vour’wile and a lamp post!” “Yes,” said the
prisoner, meekly, “my wife is a Boston
woman.”
Taylor, the wizard, got a S9O house in Paso
del Nort •, and then saying that he would
show the assemblage a trick that would open
their eves, termed “The Mystic Man, or the
Dieapjiearance,” he brought out a large b>x
and said: “I will now shut mvself up in this
box; thetri'kisto find me.” Five minutes
later everybody knew that he had escaped
from the rear with the receipts of the even
ing and a coat belonging to an employe of
the theatre.
They left the parson at the gate,
Two happy souls, I ween—
No more he’d burn her father’s coal
And waste the kerosene!
And forth they journeyed, hand in hand—
Life’s sun was newly i Isen;
His orawny hand was held in hern.
And hern was held in hisseu!
“Good morning, ch Idren,” said an Austin
physician, as he met three or four little chil
dren ou their way to school, “and how are you
I this morning?” “We daren’t tell yon,” re
; pil'd the oldest of the crowd, a boy of eight,
j “Dare not tell me!” exclaimed the physician,
“and why not?” “’Cause papa said that last
year it cost him over SSO to have von come in
and ask us how we were.”— Torii Sifting*.
Mr. Smith's house is on tire!” shouted a
man in a- rowded theatre. Seventy-five men
arose. “It is Mr. John Smith’s house,” he
added. Ten of them e>t down. So says
Ayer’s Alm inac for the vear 1742. A person
inquired for a Miss Murphy at a mill in Law
rence, Mass. The paymaster told him that
forty-two Mi<s Murohys worked there. “Miss
Mary Murphy,” explained the man. “There
are twenty-seven Mary Murphys here,” ex
plained the paymaster.
Little drops of printer’s ink,
A little type “displayed,”
Make our therch <nt. bosses
And all their big parade.
Little bits of stinginess.
Discarding printer's ink,
Snsts the m m of business,
And sees his credit sink.
—Peoria Transcript.
Ail, yes; come in; come in! Haven’t seen
you for several days. Oh! been in Yurrup all
summer, eh? Ah, ’yes, yes; to be sure. Have
a little-ketch descriptive of your trip, you
thought we would like to— Os course,
“that’s what wo thought you thought.” Yes,
we will publish it. No. you nee - not leave
the manuscript; we keep the article electro
t. ped and publish it every October. Like
your name signed to it? certainly; cost vou
$1 50 a line; you’ll find the business manager
down stairs; good morning.'”— Life.
PKKSt >NAL.
Carl Schurz, it is said, has been offered the
editorship of the Atlantic Monthly.
Oakey Hall will lecture in the leading Eng
lish cities on American topics.
Tom Ochiltree denies that be was called
“the Crown Prince of Texas” w hen he was in
Europe.
Prof. Sumner’s lec ures on political sub
jects are largely attended by the young ladies
of New Haven.
Salmi Morse threatens to lecture. Now
let the peoule pluck up courage and threaten
to do something.
Chippendale, an American actor many
years connected with the London Haymarket,
lias been sent to a lunatic asylum. lie is 83.
Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, and the
Hon, Seth L. Milliken, one of the Maine Rep
resentatives, are said to resemble each other
very much.
THE Youth's Companion paid Tennyson
SI,OOO for that alleged p >em on spring. That
was at the rate of S2B 83 for each line of four
or five words.
Carl Schurz has been editor of the Westliche
Pont, the Detroit Pont the New Y<*rk Keening
Post, and now leaves his post, pretty well
nosted, and will post off to Germany.
Gen. J ames Longstreet says th it it is not
his emotion which causes him ’to break down
when he tries to make a speech, but a bullet
which is lodged in his throat, and which was
added io him in the Wilderness.
Ex-Speaker Randall wrote to a Connecti
cut friend after his recent defeat: "Do not
apprehend any eglslative mistakes here; we
shall all do our utmost to avoid them and
strive to put our party in trim fur 1881.”
President John Taylor, the official head
of the Mormon church, has prepared an
elaborate statement of the political andeocial
attitude of the Latter-day Saints, for the
January number of the Forth American Re
view.
Fredermeyer and Guerrero, who are
trundling wheelbarrows across tiie continent,
from San Francisco to New York, for a purse
of *2,000, arrived at Ogden on Decembers.
They star.ed from San Francisco on the 7th of
October.
George IV., while vet the Prince of Wales,
wore in his locket the picture of an eye. It
was a mod expressive blue eye, showing au
burn hair falling over the forehead. The
original was the orb of Mrs. Fitzherbert, the
wile the gay Prince married in private.
The story that Hon. S. S. Cox is a rich
man is thoroughly groundless. A correspon- i
dent, who claims to know, says that Mr. Cox I
has no income beyond his salary as Congress
man and the royalties on several books which
he has written. He owns his house in Twelfth
street, but lives as plain as an old-fashioned
farmer.
Wheeler H.PECKHAMresigned the District
Attorneyship in New York because be found
that the perplexities of the duties <>f the office
prevented him from sleeping. This makes
his resignation all the more a matter of re
gret. A sleepless vigilance is the v ry thing
required at the hands of a nrosecuting officer
in New York.
George Butler, late wagon master of the
United States Army, is not confined in a
Washington workhouse, as reported. He
writer and publishes a very hit' iligent card,
setting forth the fact that he is only spending
some time in the Government Asylum for the
Insane, trying to raise a new crop of will
power which will enable him to resist the ap
petite for strong drink.
Mario, the tenor, who has just died in Rome,
was i he greatest male singer that ever lived.
H- made vast sums of money in the day of his
popularity, but led an extremely prodigal
life. His Sunday dinners in Lo don to his
friends used to be famous. Os late years he
has been working in a library in Rome for a
weekly stipend much smaller than he was
once in the habitof giving the man who brush
ed his coat.
Here is another of the many reminiscences
that are going theroundsof the press concern
ing Sojourner Truth: At one time during the
war she was in Washington and called on
President Lincoln and gave him her photo
graph, saying: “The face is black, but it has
a white back to it. Will you please give me
the picture of your face with a green back to
it?” Lincoln, smilingly, handed her a $lO
greenback, the vignette of which was the pic
ture of his face.
Mr. Talmage last Sunday preached on the
profoudd question, “What Would Have Been
the Results if the Rope That Let St. Paul
Down From the City Wall Had Broken?”
The results would no doubt ha-i been appall
ing to Paul. There is every probabildy that
if such a catastrophe had happened Minneap
olis would have had the monopoly on the Up
per Mississippi. Mr. Talmage should now
endeavor to ascertain the exact position oc
cupied by Moses at the time the light was ex
tinguished.— Detroit Free Press.
Victor Hugo has been vi-ited by a delega
tion of Mormons, who urged him to join their
body, and endeavored by appeals to his poetic
sense to make a convert of him. Such, at
lea-t, is the story that is going the rounds of
the German newspapers, which assert further
that the aged poet’s visitors introduced two
Mormon girls to him, and gave him to under
stand that he might have them both as wives
if he shoo'd conclude to become a follower of
Brigham Young. The French journals pro
nounce the latter part of this report a sheer
invention, prompted by Teutonic malice; but
they admit that Hugo gave audience to a
Mormon deputation, and that he had an ex
tended conversation w ith them.
Patti has been communicaiing a few per
sonal reminiscences to the Paris Figaro.
Among them ate the following: “Once dur
ing a performance of Linda,” she says, “I
received a number of bouquets, the last of
which was compi-sed very oddly. One of the
flowers fell out on to tiie stage, making a
regular thud. It consisted of an enormous
ball of lead, which, if it had been more
firmly tied to the bouquet, must have struck
my head. As it was, the bouquet hit my
shoulder.” On another occasion the curtain
fell on Mme. Patti’s head, and she was saved
only by the fashion then prevailing of rolling
up her hair high upon her head. But it was
not a mere accident. She has had matches
put into the water she drinks, and has even
received poisoned gloves witii a request to let
the maker call them by her name.
SCARING UP A WILD MAN.
Two Hunters Have a Bit of Experience
with a Formidable What Is It.
Calcutta, 0., Special Few York Sun, Oth
One day last week Messrs. A. Rauch
and Robert Bradley left town for a hunt
in the woods north of th s place. The
forest is very dense, and contains a num
ber ot rocky hills, precipices and caves.
It has long been the hiding place of crimi
nals when eluding arrest.
While Rauch and Bradley were walking
along the top of a bluff in the thick of
these woods they were startled by a pecu
liar cry. They could at first see nothing,
but soon a creature of formidable aspect
rushed out from a cleft in the rocks. It
was about the average size of a man, and
somewhat resembled a gorilla. It stood
perfectly erect, and was covered from
head to foot with hair.
After staring a few moments at the
hunters the creature gave another cry
and jumped away into the woods. Never
thinking of consequences, one of the hunt
ers raised his gun and fired, wounding the
animal in the arm. It turned with a hor
rible scream of rage and pursued the
hunters, who threw away their guns and
ran at the top of their speed. The creature
gained on them until they reached a clear
ing and a fence, over which they jumped.
The animal then ran back into the woods.
The hunters declare they would not go
back again for a mint of money. A posse
of citizens, however, is looking for the
animal. It is believed that the creature
is an escaped lunatic. Some years ago a
young man who had become insane, and
was confined in the county poorhouse,
escaped and took to the woods, where he
subsisted by eating berries, nuts, roots,
and small animals. He has been seen
several times. It is thought that he will
soon be captured.
Cross-eyed Bear.
An illustration of the ridiculous and
annoying way in which a church choir
will sometimes run together the words of
a hymn, is afforded by the remark of a
small boy in one of the front pews of a
large and (alas?) fashionable church in
Boston. The hymn beginning.
“The consecrated cross I’d bear,”
had just been sung, and in the momentary
quiet which followed, the perplexed youth
turned to his father and asked in an earn
est whisper, “Sav, pa, where do they keep
the consecrated cross-eyed bear?”
Embroidery worked by hand on velvet
or satin is very fashionable.
LIFE IN THE METROPOLIS.
SUSPICIOUS FIKES AMONG THE
EAST SIDE TENEMENTS.
The Hardships of False Alarms and the
Hippodrome of Test Alarmx-Berated
Police Captains Call on the Offending
for Proofs of His Allegations.
Correspondence of the Sunday Morning AVios.
New lokk, Dec. 13.—1 had a talk with
Fire Marshal Sheldon, the other dav, re
specting the suspicious frequency of tires
in the tenements on the east side,
inhabited by foreigners of a low
class. The duty of the Fire Mar
shal is to investigate the causes, when
they are not obvious, of all tires occurring
on Manhattan Island. His position rem
ders him a professional pessimist. His
experience has been such that he has no
difficulty in believing in the doctrine of
original sin an tof total depravity. Dur
ing the ten years he has held this office he
has met with scores of cases where fires
had been kindled in crowded tenements
for the sake ot a few hundred dollars in
surance. Every few weeks, in tact, fires,
undoubtedly ot incendiary origin, oc
cur, which, if not extinguished in
time, would cause greater or less
loss of . life. More than once
the incendiary has become a murderer in
his attempt to mulct the insurance com
panies, and has burned to death several
persons.
“I have no doubt,” said Fire Marshal
Sheldon at our interview, “that if the in
surance companies would refuse to grant
policies to such people as I have in mind
fires on the east side would be diminished
by 85 per cent. 1 don’t mean to say that
all fires occurring in that part of the city
are of incendiary origin, but a vast num
ber result from, criminal carelessness,
which the withdrawal of insurance would
soon put an end to. A man with small
moral sense, it he happens to be well in
sured, would rather be burned out than
not; at any rate, while fear mav con
strain hnn from committing the crime of
arson, he will not be apt to take any pre
cautions against tire. Once refuse to in
sure persons who are periodically burned
out, and they will never be burned out
again.
FALSE ALARMS OF FIRE.
You can’t imagine how much humbug is
connected with the false alarms of tire
which are occasionally sent out in order
to show distinguished visitors with what
rapidity our firemen gather to the fray.
The signal is usually sounded from some
tire box in Union Square, and the compa
nies which are summoned by a call from
that box invariably have previous infor
mation as to the hour and minute they
are to give an exhibition of their process.
Accordingly, long before the signal sounds
the horses are harnessed, the men are in
their places and everything is ready tor a
dash as soon as the gongsounds. A f riend
ot mine who was in the Great Jones street
engine house when an exhibition
was last given told me that
the engine was a quarter of a
mile away before the gong had ceased to
sound, the driver not having waited to
count the strokes so as to learn whether
it was the exhibition call or a real alarm.
The engine got into Union Square, halt a
mile distant, almost before the Eighteenth
street company, which had but two blocks
to go.
The fire alarm system, by the way, is so
arranged as to give the force much un
necessary worry and work. A fire in any
part of the city results in the gong strik
ing in every engine and truck house on
Manhattan Island, and in the annexed
district. The burning of rubbish in
Castle Garden arouses firemen at West
Farms, ten miles distant, as well as those
in the intervening space. A false alarm
even thus calls out all the firemen in the
cPy. Os course, when the number of
times the gong strikes shows that the fire
is not in their district, the firemen no
longer give themselves concern, but there
is none the less hardship in being called
unnecessarily from their beds often
twenty times in a single night.
POT HAS BEEN CALLING THE KETTLE
BLACK
the past week. About a fortnight ago the
police unearthed a statute providing for
the arrest as unlicensed of saloon kepers
who had ever been convicted of any viola
tion of the excise law, the act declaring
that such conviction forfeited the license.
Justice Murray refused to so read the
law, and discharged the prisoners thus
arrested who were brought before him.
He added insult to injury by declaring
that police captains made use of their
position to blackmail the keepers of
saloons and disreputable places. Only by
conniving at vice and a violation of law,
he said, could they, on a salary of $2,000 a
year, amass fortunes, and become pos
sessors of brown stone houses iu town
and cottages in the country. The police
captains held a number of indignation
meetings in consequence, which resulted
in their sending a letter to the magistrate
calling on him to retract his charges,
or to specify the captains who were
blackmailers, and give proofs of bis
allegations. In addition to this letter the
gallant captains verbally accused the
Justice of having obtained his office
through bribery; ot having a professional
sympathy for the saloon-keepers because
he had once “run” an illicit distillery on
the west side, and of having shirked his
duty when he was a policeman during ■
the draft riots in 1863. Justice Murray, ,
yesterday, caused a letter to be published
reiterating his charges, and the police <
captains are preparing to prove their I
allegations against him. It the truth is
brought to light the charges on both sides
will probably be fully proved!
AN ENFORCEMENT OF THE STATUTE
which has brought about all this vitupera- 1
tion will do more to put an end to liquor
selling on Sunday than anything else that
could be devised. Saloon keepers cannot
afford to violate the law if it involves for
feiture of their licenses. Inspector Thorne
has undeservedly obtained credit for the
discovery of the statute and the conse
quent action of the police. In reality,
whatever credit belongs to correctly read
ing a statute which was enacted more
than ten years ago, should be accorded to
George Hopcrott, Superintendent Wall
ing’s Secretary, and the Inspector, in its
enforcement, has merely carried out the
instructions of his superiors.
Incredulity is expressed bv some in re
gard to the mysterious robbery of the
Rev. Mr. Bache, at the Fifty-first street
bridge, over the Fourth avenue tunnel.
The theory of these Doubting Thomases
is that he lost his money and jewelry in a
bunko game and invented the story of the
robbery to account for their loss. This
view regards his injuries as self-inflicted,
a la Whittaker, the colored cadet of ear
pulled renown, or as resulting from a tus
sle with the confidence men to regain his
property. Mr. Bache’s combining in
surance with clerical functions, in spite
of his ordination vows, renders him open
to suspicion in the eyes of Episcopalians.
The Vanderbilt ball on Tuesday was a
great success. People were there who ten
years ago w<*uld have scoffed at the idea
of entering the great millionaire’s doors.
Being an ordinary evening dress affair,
however, it only differed from other balls
of the sort in the magnificence of the sur
roundings and the little regard to expense
which was paid in everything appertain
ing to it. Thousands of dollars were
spent on flowers, and the favors in the
cotillion were in some cases of large val
ue. The conspicuous feature of the ball
was the large number of invited guests,
of whom several hundred were present.
Onlv one, a commercial traveler, said to
hail’ from Boston, who made the mistake
of coming in a sls suit of business clothes
in place of a swallow tail, was ejected
and removed to a dungeon cell for the rest
of the night. As going to a party unin
vited 1- not a crime according to the new
Code, he was discharged when arraigned
before a Magistrate yesterday.
“Duty,” the new play at the Madison
Square Theatre, is even more namby
pamby than its predecessors, but will
probably be none the less successful.
*Many a sickly woman, whose sad ex
perience had demonstrated alike the fail- ■
ure of conceited doctors and poisonous ]
drugs, has obtained a new lease of life for j
a few dollars worth of the Vegetable j
Compound and has gone on her way re- 1
joining and praising Mrs. Lydia E. Pink
ham, of Lynn, Mass. i
HARNETT liOUiSE,
SAVANNAH, QA.,
IS conceded to be the most comfortable and
by far the best conducted Hotel in savan- ;
nah. Rates: $2 per day
M. L. HARNETT.
Keeler’s Branch Cigar Store, |
102 BROUGHTON STREET,
Nearly opposite Marshall House.
BEST Cigar of Keeler’s own manufacture.
Also, Imported Havana and Domestic •
Cigars. Chewing and Smoking Tobaccos and >
Snuff. Pipes in endless variety. Give me a i
call. VINCENT KEELER. .
Wan'rd.
W~ANTED TO REST, by the 777717?*'
with about . ight (8) room F ’*
Mating terms, AH, 0.. th is O ffi m A<ldr '«C
\V Winners for 50 head 7777
’ i ey8 ’ to ,K> Bh, 't for at Schnetzen |T°I
, December 20. Seejidvertiacnirnt P 1 ***
i \\ w h'teor coloredriri~h7»
i AUO.V I”*' 1 ”*'
I colored preferred: y ’ Henrystr «et;
| WANTED .situation bv
I »I sirous of settling here eith«C *?’,,e
keeper, assistant tx>okke« peror Xh-r ’° ok ‘
• make h-mself generally usemi er '
travel for a dry goods,. grocery d rtl ° r
business house. Thorough any
nence as bookkeeper and aX™..
Wonable references and strict kl“ lnt l" ea ~
Address A. K. S . office
and type - writer"Op’erator’wni°£? pher
for Hrttt.
F'OK RENT, house with 12~r00m7~7'~~ -
M TT""'
ply at s<> Barnard street, corner Hm*’
F'us^dVßTaTs^Y o^;
bedrooms, nearly ail southern ?ro nt '"T g r
dining room and parlor, all “ u
having been lately painted. RentX w » r ’
further particulars apply at the office *f
W. M. davidsov
— 158 Bryan street
TO RENT, south rooms; centrally ToeTtTT
Apnly at the northeast corner of Bronvb'
von ana Lincoln streets. r ' uga-
K REN I’, a
1 rooms; splendid location. AuuV
premises, 112 Macon street. PP‘J os
gar Salt.
17° R SALK.—Prepare for the~h7hffi77777
get an Bxlo walnut Frame and
complete for $1 50. made by the new ins
taneous process, at WILSON’S, 21
opposite the Screven House. “street,
F°}Ls A i LE ’i Bchoone r Robert
A tons burden; carries 175 barrels
For further information apply at t * l *’
H. SCHRODER’S,
_ Market i o7k.
Stratjrft.
STRAYED from steamer Ma r v'Y'ish e7*»
red no-homed Cow. Reward will be uaid
n returned to steamer. P lllO
Poardtng.
SOUTHERN ROOMS and board, 151s7nBi
r Broad street, three doors west of Whita
fAOOD BOARD, with a large, hamtonwb
VJ furnished iront south room. 156 s ou tL
Broad street.
SoHdaij (Boobo.
c; i? ri>
Christmas Presentation
SSOO OO
WORTH OF GOODS!
Tickets, - - - SIOO.
Full information by addressing
DAVIS BROS.,
—DEALERS IN—
Xmas & New Year Cards,
TOILET CASES, PLUSH AND
LEATHER GOODS, PHOTO
GRAPH ALBUMS. AND A GEN
KRAL LINE OF HOLIDAY
GOODS.
42 and 44 Bull Street,
Corner ot York,
SAVANNAH, GA.
GOODS!
Don't buy until
you examine our Ele
gant Display of the
Finest Goods ever
offered, all of which
will be sold at Low
Figures.
SOLOMONS & CO..
DR U CCI STS.
A PICNIC.
Saturday Night, January 5, IHB4.
Funny time for a picnic, ain’t it? But wv
have a funny way of doing business at
our place any way. We sell
Xmas and New Year Cars
Holiday Goods Generally
Cheaper than any other store in town, and it
addition to that, we are going to have a
nic. Call at once and secure your tickeu/ «»•
THE SAVANNAH ART CO.,
47 BULL -TKEET.
HEADQUARTERS!
—FOB—
Fire Works.
Fire Crackers.
Cannon Crackers.
Torpedoes and Fancy Groceries-
AT—
BRANCH & COOPED
(fljina, (Etr.
STOCKHOLDERS !
VISITORS !
AND THE
PUBLIC GENERAL!-!,
Are reepeetfully invited to atten ! t...
EXHIBITION
Art,China & Glass!
I\OW liv I’ROG
JAS. S. SILVA’S,
I*o BROUGHTON STREET.
j New and elegantly fitted up Show Boon-- -V
i stairs.